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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Souls in Purgatory are traditionally not in danger of going to Hell. Otherwise, they'd already be there.

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* FateWorseThanDeath: Death is nothing compared to the penalty for violence.

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* FateWorseThanDeath: Death is nothing compared to the penalty for violence.eternal damnation.



-->'''Coach driver''': "The Creator may be tough, but he ain't blind."

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-->'''Coach driver''': "The The Creator may be tough, but he ain't blind."



-->'''Blackjack''': "Your mother's a whore."
-->'''Wild Bill''': "I have no mother."

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-->'''Blackjack''': "Your Your mother's a whore."
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Bill''': "I I have no mother."



* LastSecondChance: The entire point of the town of Refuge is to allow the souls of people who were neither too good nor too evil one last chance to redeem themselves. Resist temptation for ten years, and they get to go to Heaven, but fail just once, and they're DraggedOffToHell.



* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Lightning strikes one of the gang just as he's about to throw his knife at the sheriff.

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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Lightning strikes one of the gang just as he's about to throw his knife at the sheriff. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a BoltOfDivineRetribution, putting it firmly on the "magic" side.]]



--> '''Wild Bill:''' What do you think you're doing?
--> '''UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid:''' Down the hole's down the hole. Might as well have some fun on the way.

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--> '''Wild -->'''Wild Bill:''' What do you think you're doing?
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'''UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid:''' Down the hole's down the hole. Might as well have some fun on the way.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Sonny is the only decent and good hearted member of Blackjack's gang.
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* KnifeNut: Betty [=McCullough=], though her victim deserved it.
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* GodIsGood: He gives people a second chance and understands the need to defend your home.

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* GodIsGood: He He's a strict example of GoodIsNotSoft, but gives people a second chance and understands the need to defend your home.



* RefusingParadise: The single good-aligned bandit is dead and gets the chance to skip waiting in purgatory for ten years and go straight to Heaven, but he decides to stay because the town needs a good sheriff.

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* RefusingParadise: The single good-aligned bandit is dead and gets the chance to skip waiting in purgatory for ten years and go straight to Heaven, but he decides to stay because the town needs a good sheriff.sheriff to protect it while its residents seek redemption.



* VillainBall: Blackjack and his band of outlaws. They ride into a weird little town whose pacifistic, religious inhabitants give them food and drink including alcohol, stable their horses, put them up in the hotel, and doctor their wounds all without payment. Said inhabitants really don't want trouble, to the point of not doing anything when the outlaws steal ammunition. The outlaws could just take the hospitality and go, stealing stuff on the way out. Was it ''really'' necessary to keep trying to kill people, wreck stuff, and rape the women, to the point where the townsfolk, who are actually dead famous outlaws, finally decide it's enough?

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* VillainBall: Blackjack and his band of outlaws. They ride into a weird little town whose pacifistic, religious inhabitants give them food and drink including alcohol, stable their horses, put them up in the hotel, and doctor their wounds all without payment. Said inhabitants really don't want trouble, to the point of not doing anything when the outlaws steal ammunition. The outlaws could just take the hospitality and go, stealing stuff on the way out. Was it ''really'' necessary to keep trying to kill people, wreck stuff, and rape the women, to the point where the townsfolk, who are actually dead famous outlaws, finally decide it's enough? enough is enough.
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* AnAesop: Violence is usually bad, but sometimes it's the only way to defend others.

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* AnAesop: Violence is usually bad, but sometimes it's the only way to defend others.others from attackers bent on violence.

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